Button-setting machine



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G. W. ALTMAN. BUTTON SETTING MACHINE.

Pat led Aug. 22.1898.

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Patented Aug. 22, 1893 UNITED STATES PAIEN'T OFFICE.

GEORGE W. ALTMAN, OF MARION, INDIANA.

BUTTON-SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 503,891, dated August 22, 1893.

Application filed May 3, 1893- Serial No. 472,842. (No model.)

T0 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. ALTMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ma rion, in the countyof Grant and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Button-Setting Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art' to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to button-setting machines for securing buttons to shoes, and it consists in the construction and novel combination of the parts of the same, as will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1, is a perspective View of my device.v Fig. 2, is a vertical sectional view of the staple drum and its chute. Fig. 3, is a plan view of the button cylinder. Fig. 4 is a bot tom view of the same, and Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse sectional view of button cylinder and staple drum.

Referring by letter to the accompanying; drawings, A designates the base plate by which the machine is secured to the bench or base on which it is to be used.

B is the standard which supports the operating mechanism. The lower end of this standard is screw-threaded and is provided with jam-nuts and a washer for holding the standard in its seat in the base-plate, the baseplate itself being secured in place upon the bench or other place by bolts and nuts. The standard B is bent or curved near its upper end rearwardly away from'the perpendicular line of the standard, and has secured to it just below the first or initial bend or curve a U-shape brace, one of the ends of which is secured by a screw to the button-feeding cylinder D and the other end to the staplefeeding drum E supported mainly by a cross head or bracket F secured to the upper end of the standard B, screws being preferably employed to secure these several parts in position on the standard and brace.

On the inner face of the staple-feeding drum around its arbor line is an integral inwardly projecting cone-shaped bushing G, which forms one of the bearings for the shaft H of the staple-feeding saw I, the hub of said saw I, being rigidly secured to the saw-shaft H. The staple feeding drum is made in two vertically disposed sections and on the outer one of these sections and projecting from the inner face of the same is a cone-shaped portion L which forms another bearing for the shaft H. v

The staple-feeding saw I is provided with hook-shaped teeth M the hooks projecting all in the same direction from acommon center, these teeth M being designed to feed the staples for sccu ring the shoe-buttons through the staple-tube or chute N to the anvil P which clinches them to the fabric of the shoe, after said staples have met with the eye of the button-shan ks as theycome from the button-chute Q which leads into the staple-feeding chute at a point in the staple-feeding-chute where the lever B is fulcrumed, and engages and places the staple into the eye of the button-shank. The threaded eye and staple are then forced or moved down by the following or succeeding staples and buttons, to the anvil P, which, however, forms no part of the present improvement,and are there clinched or fastened by the action of the anvil. Y is a spring which engages the power end of a stop-lever Z having a stud a at its forward end which passes upwardly through a hole b in the front end of said lever immediately in rear of its connection with the curved rod 01 connected to apivoted and perforated segmental plate e at the front end of the staple chute. The segmental plate e is also connected with the clinching mechanism at the anvil.

. Onthe staple-tube is arranged a feedingwheel a that is mounted on a frame 12' se cured upon the channel portion a," of the staple-tube, and pivoted to the journal of said wheel is a lever 0 having a pawl 01' that engages the teeth of the staple-feeding wheel a, and connected to the lower, end of this lever is a rod 6', the opposite end thereof being con nected to the long arm of the lever B. Thus at every stroke of the clinching device the wheel a is moved, and the staples, by the teeth thereof, are caused to pass downwardly t0 the button, and meet the same at the intersection of the tubes, one at a time, where they are threaded. Centrally arranged within this channel a" is a guide-bar f the curved end 9 of which enters the drum and said bar has oneither side two spring-arms h, h; the inner ends of which are fixed to the central arm while the opposite ends thereof are free and serve to keep the staples in an upright posi tion on the center-bar when said staples are riding the bar in their exit from the drum. At

tween the drum and the button-feeding cylin-v der, is secured a ratchet wheel is and loosely pivoted to said shaft is an arm Z to which is wheel aforesaid and whic at the intersection of. the staple and button tubes and retards the movement of the lowest button while the same is being threaded, d. e., the staple prong passing into the eye thereof, after which the upper curved end same revolves and is supported upon a vertical bolt y which has its bearing in the plate w The under-face of this revolving bottom plate of the button cylinder has holes or depressions b in which the stud a engages whereby the bottom is turned or revolved at every stroke of the anvil. A stop or retaining spring 2, is secured to the cylinderand the point 12 engages one of the holes b and prevents a reverse action of the bottom as well as holding the same in position until acted upon by the lever y. This leverwith its spring 2 is pivoted to the bolt y and is q of the, pivoted lever B, forces the threaded button cylinder, the end 0 being connected to the segmental plate by the rod (1. Thus it will be seen that at every stroke of the anvil when clinching the staple with its button to 'the shoe, the toothed plate within the stapledrum and the revolving bottom of the button cylinder are simultaneously operated; the staples being delivered from said drum-arm and the buttons being delivered from the cylinder into the button-chute, where they meet at the intersection of said arm and chute and are there threaded, after which the threaded buttons pass into the lower portion of the chute and are delivered to the anvil.

1, By this construction the staples are fed from pivoted a pawl m" that en ages the ratchet,

h causes the shaftj to revolve with its toothed wheel, when the devlce is operated. The lower end of this pivoted arm i s'connected to the plate e by a-i one source which is connected with'the button-feed source, and in their passage to the anvil, thestaples are threaded into the eyes has been reached, the staple, already passed 1 through'theeye of the button-shank, is ready Beneath the channeled staple-chute is sel cured one end of a fiat spring 0; the free curved end 13' of which engages the buttons -to be forced through the material of the shoe and clinched therein by the anvil mechanism. Treadle-power, steam-power, or the like, may be used to operate the machine, it only being necessary to keep the staple drum and the button-feeder properly supplied with appropriate material.

Having thus fully described my invention, what'I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a standard having -a button feeding cylinder, of the lever Y and spring Z, a staple feeding drum and connected conveying chute for the buttons and staples,

substantially as specified.

2. The combination with the supporting standard, of a button feeding-drum or cylinengaging openings in its lower face, of a staple feeding drum having a hook-tooth staplefeeding saw, a hooked feeding-lever in the staple-chute and a button-chute connected with the staple chute at the point Where the feeding-lever is -fulcrumed, substantially as specified.

presence of two witnesses.-

GEORGE W. ALTMAN. Witnesses: J i W. NESMITH, G. W. HASTY.

arranged beneath the bottom of the buttonder havinga stop-spring and a bearing-spring I In testimony whereof I affix my signature in.

of the button shanks, so that when the anvil 

